The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-03-24

- Ihe balloon Tor tne Harl6 EXnlDl.
tion of 1889 will carry up 100 persons.
"A California young man recently
thrashed a clergyman because the church
would not receive his mother as mem
Der.
= The Prohibitionists of Mississippi
have added twelve counties to the dry
list of the past year, and feel accordingly
very much aplifted. By petition and
local option they control two thirds of
the State, and have designs upon the
other third.
The Connecticut Congregational
club elected q naturalized Chinaman as
president for the ensuing term This is,
probably, the first elevation of the kind
on record. Who would have thought
fifty years ago that disciple of Confu-
cius would ever preside over the deliber-
ations of a christian, religious organiza-
tiou9
= The repeal of the capital punish
ment law has been effected in Maine and
imprisonment for life is substituted for
death in all cases of murder in the first
degree. Such conyicts, however, are to
be kept in close confinement away from
all associations, and no pardoning power
is left to the governor and council unless
the convict is proved innocent.
- At his reception to the public,
Wednesday, the president was presented
by happy father with q photograph.
Then came the touching words: "This,
Mr.. President, is a picture ofmy first born.
1 have named him Grover Cleveland.
Will you accept the photograph" The
white house collection Of photographs
representing babies named after either
the president or his wife, is growing very
large.
in Denver, ILL.,, there is, laid by a
local hen, an egg that is attracting con.
siderable attention, and justly too. 1t is
smaller and lighter than an ordinary egg,
and will not lie or stand in any other
position than on its small end. If stood
on the large end, it will quickly turn to
the other; and if pushed down on its
side, it will jump up again. It does not
appear to have any unusual weight in the
small end,
Jefferson Davis has written letter
contradictipg the rumor that he was
about to visit Washington. He says
that he will never see the Capital again.
"It would be pleasant to view the scenes
which were once so familiar to me-" he
he adds, "though I doubt if I would
hardly recognize the city now, as it has
30 improved and grown. No, shall
never again see Washington. Pm get
ting too old to travel"
= Isaac II. Vincent, the Alabama
defaulting treasurer, who has been. miss
ing since 1885, having got away with
over two hundred thousand dollars of
public money, was lodged in Jail at
Montgomery on the 10Th. He was
caught near Ell Paso, Texas. He left
Montgomery Oh the night of January
20, 1885. a reward of FIVE thousand dol
lars was offered for his capture. His
securities and his own property paid
about fifty thousand dollars of the defal-
cation.
- A commission appointed by the
California Legislature reports that there
are 1000 convicts in the State prisons,
which is one to every 130 white voters.
This is fearful showing. The commits.
sion finds the principal sources of crime
to be intemperance, ignorance, loosen.-.
Of the marriage tie, opium and want of
any trade or calling. The number of
young criminals is very large, and we
are told that in 1881, with a compulsory
education Law, fully $4,000 children
between the age of 5 and II failed to
attend school.
A promising young physician of
Lincoln, DR.. VIM. Crowell, on Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock was driving to see
,he sick and was accompanied in the
buggy by his betrothed, Miss Bess,
of Thomas Bess As the happy
pair were vending their way to the sick
i sudden pain struck him and instantly
1e dropped dead, without word, in the
ap of Miss Bess. There she was travel
ng with her dead lover. Kind friends
oon came to her assistance, who took
charge of the corpse Shelby, N, c., Au.
ora,